NELIOTA Status
3369 days since start of observations
324.8 hours of lunar observations
255.68 TB of lunar images
211 Lunar impact flash events
NELIOTA impact flashes

Location of the impact flashes detected so far by NELIOTA.

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News Archive

2025

NELIOTA paper receives prestigious prize from the Academy of Athens   (23 December 2025) Read More...
Interactive Map of Lunar Impact Flashes   (04 November 2025) Read More...
First lunar impact flash detection of the NELIOTA-III campaign   (29 August 2025) Read More...
NELIOTA-III begins in August 2025   (28 July 2025) Read More...

2023

Second phase of NELIOTA lunar impact observations has ended   (20 September 2023) Read More...
Public release of the "Flash Detection Software"   (13 March 2023) Read More...

2022

Announcing the "Flash Detection Software"   (21 October 2022) Read More...
Participation in the Fireball Workshop #2   (17 February 2022) Read More...

2021

Kick-off meeting for the "Flash Detection Software" project   (06 October 2021) Read More...
Extension of NELIOTA lunar impact observations through the CARMEN project   (04 August 2021) Read More...
NELIOTA: 113 impact flashes detected in first phase of operation   (05 February 2021) Read More...

2020

ESA press release: 100th lunar asteroid collision confirmed by second telescope   (15 April 2020) Read More...
NELIOTA cameras used to observe the flyby of BepiColombo   (15 April 2020) Read More...
NELIOTA publication featured on the cover of Astronomy & Astrophysics   (22 January 2020) Read More...

2019

NELIOTA: third scientific publication   (02 December 2019) Read More...
Multi-frame flash detected on July 7, 2019   (09 July 2019) Read More...

2018

ESA extends the NELIOTA project to 2021   (07 December 2018) Read More...
Multi-frame flash detected on September 5, 2018   (07 September 2018) Read More...
NELIOTA: second scientific publication   (05 September 2018) Read More...
NELIOTA: first scientific publication   (24 January 2018) Read More...

2017

NELIOTA cameras used to observe Triton's occultation   (06 October 2017) Read More...
New multi-frame flash   (19 September 2017) Read More...
Asteroid Day 2017 at Kryoneri Observatory   (13 July 2017) Read More...
ESA press release: New NELIOTA project detects flashes from lunar impacts   (24 May 2017) Read More...
First lunar flashes detected by NELIOTA   (20 April 2017) Read More...
NELIOTA commissioning phase completed   (06 March 2017) Read More...

2016

NELIOTA passed ESA acceptance test   (09 November 2016) Read More...
Kryoneri telescope upgrade completed   (19 July 2016) Read More...
Kryoneri telescope retrofit update   (05 May 2016) Read More...
Kryoneri telescope upgrade started   (07 April 2016) Read More...

2015

NELIOTA camera first light   (25 October 2015) Read More...
Press Release: ESA's new lunar monitoring project in collaboration with the National Observatory of Athens   (23 April 2015) Read More...